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Ode to brollies

However expensive they are when it’s raining pots and pans and you’re in a queue for ten minutes because your boots leak and your hat’s not that powerful; however much they ruin your spatial awareness and make you clang into things you’d otherwise miss by three feet; however much they turn inside out, poke you [...]
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Dad’s Cobra kit-car

Funeral’s good but it’s not the one. It’s like one, though. I mean we’ve all been standing outside and feeling sick and something has more-or-less died. What it is really is that my Dad’s been building a kitcar for over twenty years — and now he’s had to sell it on account of he can’t afford [...]
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